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KMID : 0917520020090030237
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2002 Volume.9 No. 3 p.237 ~ p.250
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Realization of Focal Accent in VP-ellipsis
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Lee Yong-Jae
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Linguistically, "Focus" is the element which includes new or unpresupposed infor-mation. It is usually signalled by prosodic prominence called the ´pitch accent´. The purpose of this study is to observe the realization of the focal accent in VP-ellipisis, especially, to affect the meaning recovery of elided VP. asher (1999) gave evidence that focal stress should be on the higher verb and the AUX in order to recover the elided VP to the lower one. In this paper, the systematic patterning of focal accent to decide the elided meaning in VP-ellipsis is to be observed. The realization of focal accent by English native speakers i set as the criteria for the meaning recovery of the elided VP and is compared to Koreans´. Moreover, the focal accents of Koreans are observed and compared with respect to their English proficiency levels.
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